Hearthstone

Tell me about it, second time I see Ragnaros on the other side. thank God for Polymorph.

Also: ILLIDAN! F*CK YEAH!

How does this compare to "analogue" ccgs? (Like Magic.)

Bonus points if any of you have tried the awesomeness that is Netrunner and can compare to that.

much simpler then magic, no blocking, nothing you can do on opponents turn. but mostly everything is the same and the good/broken cards/mechanics are pretty easy to spot when you've played mtg for a while.

also, for the matchmaking stuff, I doubt it's meant to compare the cards in your deck. it's probably just using that rank/medal thing. so it's a matchmaking based on a 'bad' ELO rating like magic used to have. if two people each played 100 games, one guy won 80% and the other 20%, they then shouldn't get paired against each other if there's other people in the queue. If you win like 50% of your games, I am sure you can easily get paired against someone winning 70-75% with a 'good' deck.

Sounds like I'll pass, then.

i almost feel sorry for the shaman i just played..

turn 3 or 4, i play a vaporize and dont think anything of it

turn 9 he plays a Al'Akir the Windlord, gives it Rockbiter and attacks me...

i felt so bad watching this gorgeous minion with charge and windfury and divine sheild...instantly get obliterated
i couldnt stop laughing for the rest of the match

Destroying Legendaries the turn they drop is half the pleasure of the game

I finished Priest training (up to level) - Holy sweet mother of Bajesus that deck is insane!

hmm, i think i now know what deck to work on next

Ask Worldie for more pointers, but I can't count the number of times I was literraly swimming in cards, with a full smattering of minions on the table. You play *very* aggressively early on, since you can easily heal with your hero power, and if you took care to grab Vodoo doctors and "For Nazjataar" whats-her-name, you minions keep going and going long after they should have reasonably dropped.

If your opponent made the error of letting a Northshire Cleric alive, it can go so far as being forced to discard new drawn cards. I wasn't even AWARE we had a hand size limit before that

I love playing a defensive version of Priest deck.

I have essentially only taunt minions with lot of health, and healing spells. Force enemy to smash his face into your minions, heal them back and slowly drain him down, taking down stronger minions with SWD cards.

My deck for reference:


Works against everything unless some horrible bad luck with cards.



Mages are nightmare though. I really think their class cards are borderline op, sooooo much aoe dmg. Can wipe up a whole lane of minions with 1 card with no downsides...

with spell damage, yeah...blizzard+arcane explosion is insane AOE

not to mention a bunch of aoe freezing

Really liking the Priest deck at the moment, been playing it a lot more but I can't imagine playing it without 2 Mind Controls, that has won me so many games, the number of end game Core Hounds I've snatched away with it only to have the opponent immediately conceed is beautiful

I've also found Mind Vision can be rather nice, sometimes you get junk but often it's good (and certainly better than the 1 point card you used) and best of all it throws a spanner in your opponents strategy when he suddenly has to deal with a card he can't expect a Priest to have.

Fact: as soon as I gave up druid deck and took Rogue instead, won 2 games at first attempt.

True fact: Legendaries attracts more flack than a Messerschmitt above England's coasts in 1943.

bldavis wrote:

Passionario wrote:(sorry to hear this, i guess open a ticket/submit bug report and see what they say? i havent heard of this issue before so i have no idea)

Clearing the cache a couple of times did the trick.

Sagara wrote:Destroying Legendaries the turn they drop is half the pleasure of the game

On this note, I think there's too many cards on the line of "kill a card without allowing any reaction".
It's cool if some decks include one, but when every single deck has 2+ of those, it kinda feels frustrating to play a strong card just to get it destroyed the turn after.
Atm when I play against rogue or priest I'm "scared" to use my buff cards cause I know they will kill the buffed minion the turn after.

I instead like the cards like the warlock's Corruption, "the minion dies the turn after" which allows you to at least make something out of that card before it's dead.

Worldie wrote:

Sagara wrote:Destroying Legendaries the turn they drop is half the pleasure of the game

On this note, I think there's too many cards on the line of "kill a card without allowing any reaction".
It's cool if some decks include one, but when every single deck has 2+ of those, it kinda feels frustrating to play a strong card just to get it destroyed the turn after.
Atm when I play against rogue or priest I'm "scared" to use my buff cards cause I know they will kill the buffed minion the turn after.

I instead like the cards like the warlock's Corruption, "the minion dies the turn after" which allows you to at least make something out of that card before it's dead.

OTOH, I do like that situation - it means you can play a lot of mind games as to exactly *how* important, say, that Stormind Champion, versus just being a bait to let you drop something even worse later on. Or maybe he WANTS you to think it's a bait, and he wants it alive one turn to drop BoK and crush you?

Yeah, I actually like the mental games of trying to draw out an opponents 'killer' cards with fake outs before I drop the *real* thing he should be worried about.

Eh I prefer to save my "strong buff" cards when I want to give a huge hit to the enemy. Es play them all at once and hit him for 20+ dmg in1 turn, or take off a whole minion wave in 1 turn.

Tried my hand at the Arena, got a 7-3 run. Could probably eke out another win if it was not for disconnects.

Is it just me, or does the game always hand out ridiculously good cards for one's first free Arena attempt? My ass essentially got carried by 3 Fire Elementals, 2 Bloodlusts and a Doomhammer.

i had two legendaries in my first arena after the wipe, certainly felt a bit strange.

Kai wrote:i had two legendaries in my first arena after the wipe, certainly felt a bit strange.

Classy! Which ones?

they were rather unexciting, along with the others that I had a choice of. that 3 mana 5/5 ape king idiot. but the choice was 2 others that were even worse. figured I'd give him a try, but he was almost always more of a backdraw with his bananas. think I should have picked nat pagle over it, at least that guy can be great if you have him turn 2 or turn 1 with the coin.
the other was gruul, that 7/7 that gets +1+1 on each turn (your own and other). he was decent, but for an 8 drop I don't think he's all that special either. in a lot of games a champion of stormwind is better then that guy.

I'm starting to see way too many Legendaries in normal Play at Gold level... I'm starting to fear Diamond and up.

Yeah, i'm playing 2* Plat atm and it seems as if almost every single deck has a Ysera and a Deathwing now, plus any race appropriate ones (I had 5 Murlock rush decks in a row last night all different people, all with the murloc legendary). /sigh

i knew there was a reason i dont play ranked yet..